Lectures tagged "MIT"

Sasa Stanisic: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Sasa Stanisic
February 23, 2010
01:18:00
Sasa Stanisic, a native of Bosnia who fled to Germany during the war in 1992, discusses his first novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone.
History of Experimental Video in Boston
Otto Piene
January 31, 2010
00:47:28
Otto Piene, sky artist and former director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and Fred Barzyk, former director of WGBH's New Television Workshop, talk about Boston's influential role in the creation of the video art medium in the late 1960s.
Arctic Warming: Risks for Methane Emissions
Ronald Prinn
January 28, 2010
00:46:39
Dr. Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, shares the result of his project measuring the rates of change in atmospheric concentrations of trace greenhouse gases.
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier
January 13, 2010
00:49:32
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier discusses his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture.
Frank Wilzcek: Understanding the Universe
Frank Wilczek
September 15, 2008
01:03:57
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, Frank Wilczek, explains the universe, synthesis the Grand Unification of Forces, and shares his vision of a new Golden Age in physics– all for the layperson, in an event celebrating the publication of his new book, The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether and the U
Is Global Warming a Cause For Alarm?
Richard Lindzen
April 22, 2007
01:28:43
Richard Lindzen steps into the debate about whether Global Warming is real or not to offer his view that irrational alarm may be clouding our judgment.
Transitioning to a Sustainable Energy Economy
John Heywood
November 1, 2006
01:34:30
John Heywood and Stephen Ansolabehere discuss the kind growing pains that may be involved in moving towards a sustainable energy policy.
New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy
Dan Nocera
October 25, 2006
01:32:48
Angela Belcher and Dan Nocera describe the growing of living fuel cells and other emerging energy technology and brainstorm with an audience about new solutions. They discuss what kind of research and development initiatives are contributing to meeting this long-term challenge.